Behind every Vince McMahon-and-Eric Bischoff-run pro­mo­tion, there have been numer­ous wrestlers who credit one man with help­ing shape their careers — and his name is not Jim Ross or Johnny Ace but the man known as the mas­ter­mind a/k/a Paul Hey­man. Now I can sit here and cite all the great stuff Paul has done in his sto­ried career, but the...

Ear­lier today I read a great post from ECW great and cur­rent mem­ber of the TNA ros­ter Raven. Before con­tin­u­ing my post please read his com­men­tary first. Raven’s thoughts on steroids:“The sheets crapped on the for­mer ECW guys who weren’t in shape, but decry when wrestlers used steroids. Make up your mind. Benoit who until he became a...

  ECW broad­cast it’s last show tonight, and while I was sad­dened at the end of an era for extreme wrestling, I was glad to see it end. ECW was the antithe­sis of WWE and WCW. ECW gave us some very mem­o­rable and his­toric moments - such as invad­ing WWF the first time, Shane Dou­glas toss­ing the NWA belt in the trash, The Mass Tran­sit...

Too often I com­plain about the things I dis­like in pro­fes­sional wrestling, but instead of rant­ing and rav­ing about these things, I decided to write about how I would fix some things. Some of you may agree or dis­agree with my sce­nar­ios and are wel­come to comment. Wel­come to the first col­umn of The Arm­chair Booker! Let’s start with the...

Some­times, peo­ple ask me if I like sports, and to be hon­est, I don’t, for the most part, unless that sport con­sists of fight­ing sans gloves. I’ve always been into mar­tial arts, but watch­ing mar­tial arts (before all this MMA and UFC stuff) has always been a snore fest. Matches con­sisted of two numb­nuts kick­ing each other in...